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On the printed news pages of a Hong Kong newspaper, thousands of glowing rice fish, appear to illuminate the green waters of Victoria harbour in a spectacular display. The headline of the article, reads “Harbour Dirty, Fish Illuminate”. The news report tells the story of a dirty harbour polluted by Chinese industry, illuminated by the trails of glowing genetically engineered fish. This is the harbour famous around the world for the light show that takes place every night for tourists. Skyscrapers that line the harbour are illuminated in changing patterns that imply they can communicate with one another, and the lights and laser patterns are reflected in the surface of the water. The newspaper's ink-soaked pages depict water-level constellations of green fluorescent light, spreading outwards from the skyscrapers of Hong Kong’s financial district, in a shimmering pattern that appears on the waterfront. In this toxic light show as petrochemicals from the industries and production of Guanzong province circulate through the Hong Kong basin, they appear, fleetingly, as glowing traces, illuminated by the bodies of transgenic fish as they glow in response to the presence of the chemicals. In this scene, toxicity is an interruption, a disturbance, that forges new relations and disorganizes accustomed ways of being. | On the printed news pages of a Hong Kong newspaper, thousands of glowing rice fish, appear to illuminate the green waters of Victoria harbour in a spectacular display. The headline of the article, reads “Harbour Dirty, Fish Illuminate”. The news report tells the story of a dirty harbour polluted by Chinese industry, illuminated by the trails of glowing genetically engineered fish. This is the harbour famous around the world for the light show that takes place every night for tourists. Skyscrapers that line the harbour are illuminated in changing patterns that imply they can communicate with one another, and the lights and laser patterns are reflected in the surface of the water. The newspaper's ink-soaked pages depict water-level constellations of green fluorescent light, spreading outwards from the skyscrapers of Hong Kong’s financial district, in a shimmering pattern that appears on the waterfront. In this toxic light show as petrochemicals from the industries and production of Guanzong province circulate through the Hong Kong basin, they appear, fleetingly, as glowing traces, illuminated by the bodies of transgenic fish as they glow in response to the presence of the chemicals. In this scene, toxicity is an interruption, a disturbance, that forges new relations and disorganizes accustomed ways of being. | ||
Revision as of 23:03, 18 October 2018
Hereby some ensembles that gather damage in different modes:
* Transgenic Living Sensor Fish
On the printed news pages of a Hong Kong newspaper, thousands of glowing rice fish, appear to illuminate the green waters of Victoria harbour in a spectacular display. The headline of the article, reads “Harbour Dirty, Fish Illuminate”. The news report tells the story of a dirty harbour polluted by Chinese industry, illuminated by the trails of glowing genetically engineered fish. This is the harbour famous around the world for the light show that takes place every night for tourists. Skyscrapers that line the harbour are illuminated in changing patterns that imply they can communicate with one another, and the lights and laser patterns are reflected in the surface of the water. The newspaper's ink-soaked pages depict water-level constellations of green fluorescent light, spreading outwards from the skyscrapers of Hong Kong’s financial district, in a shimmering pattern that appears on the waterfront. In this toxic light show as petrochemicals from the industries and production of Guanzong province circulate through the Hong Kong basin, they appear, fleetingly, as glowing traces, illuminated by the bodies of transgenic fish as they glow in response to the presence of the chemicals. In this scene, toxicity is an interruption, a disturbance, that forges new relations and disorganizes accustomed ways of being.
GFP Medaka as a diffractive figure, through which toxicity, feminist theory, computation and toxicity are parsed. Engineered as a living environmental sensor the GFP Medaka has been patented to “make” determinate the presence of estrogenic endocrine (hormone) disruptors (EEDs) in marine water, fresh water, food, and cosmetics. In the presence of estrogen, the transgenic Medaka fish express a modified gene and synthesise green fluorescent protein in their liver–-and the intensity of this fluorescence is measured by executing an algorithm that counts the brightness of the pixels when the fish are viewed under a microscope. As the GFP Medaka in the pipet swim towards the solution in the wells, or they emit an excited fluorescent glow, as the light from the microscope passes through them, my engagements with them seem to illuminate their enduring liveliness of suffering.
* Hydraponic fish for permacutlure (Helen) - what is going on here? - which are the agents implied? alive or not, human or not, powerful or powerless - wheres? spatiality / situatedness / displacements / distribution - whens? temporality / durability / existing / extinct / repeated - semiotic-materialities: what signs and matters are at work in this ensemble? - Your entanglement with the scene - can a pattern be identified here? to what extent is this damage structural, or singular?
* biological computation (Helen) - what is going on here? - which are the agents implied? alive or not, human or not, powerful or powerless - wheres? spatiality / situatedness / displacements / distribution - whens? temporality / durability / existing / extinct / repeated - semiotic-materialities: what signs and matters are at work in this ensemble? - Your entanglement with the scene - can a pattern be identified here? to what extent is this damage structural, or singular?
* chip critters (Helen) - what is going on here? - which are the agents implied? alive or not, human or not, powerful or powerless - wheres? spatiality / situatedness / displacements / distribution - whens? temporality / durability / existing / extinct / repeated - semiotic-materialities: what signs and matters are at work in this ensemble? - Your entanglement with the scene - can a pattern be identified here? to what extent is this damage structural, or singular?
* cryopolitics (jxxx) - what is going on here? -> the management of life through the control of it based on temperature: freezing bodyparts, reproductive cells and embrios is a contemporary industry/market. - which are the agents implied? alive or not, human or not, powerful or powerless -> eggs, freezers, thermometers, assisted reproduction companies, societal discourse and imagery, gendered bodies, - wheres? spatiality / situatedness / displacements / distribution -> in vitro, fridges, laboratories, waiting rooms, webpages, professional couch rooms, biology classrooms, - whens? temporality / durability / existing / extinct / repeated -> now-or-never, in your 30's, below zero, - semiotic-materialities: what signs and matters are at work in this ensemble? - Your entanglement with the scene - can a pattern be identified here? to what extent is this damage structural, or singular?
* endocrine disruption (jxxx)
- what is going on here?
- which are the agents implied? alive or not, human or not, powerful or powerless
- wheres? spatiality / situatedness / displacements / distribution
- whens? temporality / durability / existing / extinct / repeated
- semiotic-materialities: what signs and matters are at work in this ensemble?
- Your entanglement with the scene
- can a pattern be identified here? to what extent is this damage structural, or singular?
* turbocapitalism (jxxx) - what is going on here? - which are the agents implied? alive or not, human or not, powerful or powerless - wheres? spatiality / situatedness / displacements / distribution - whens? temporality / durability / existing / extinct / repeated - semiotic-materialities: what signs and matters are at work in this ensemble? - Your entanglement with the scene - can a pattern be identified here? to what extent is this damage structural, or singular?
* cosmic rays and bit flipping (jxxx) - what is going on here? - which are the agents implied? alive or not, human or not, powerful or powerless - wheres? spatiality / situatedness / displacements / distribution - whens? temporality / durability / existing / extinct / repeated - semiotic-materialities: what signs and matters are at work in this ensemble? - Your entanglement with the scene - can a pattern be identified here? to what extent is this damage structural, or singular?
* aqua_forensic (laura) - what is going on here? - which are the agents implied? alive or not, human or not, powerful or powerless - wheres? spatiality / situatedness / displacements / distribution - whens? temporality / durability / existing / extinct / repeated - semiotic-materialities: what signs and matters are at work in this ensemble? - Your entanglement with the scene - can a pattern be identified here? to what extent is this damage structural, or singular?
* Botanist - Tsing (laura) - what is going on here? - which are the agents implied? alive or not, human or not, powerful or powerless - wheres? spatiality / situatedness / displacements / distribution - whens? temporality / durability / existing / extinct / repeated - semiotic-materialities: what signs and matters are at work in this ensemble? - Your entanglement with the scene - can a pattern be identified here? to what extent is this damage structural, or singular?
* Oncomouse (laura) - what is going on here? - which are the agents implied? alive or not, human or not, powerful or powerless - wheres? spatiality / situatedness / displacements / distribution - whens? temporality / durability / existing / extinct / repeated - semiotic-materialities: what signs and matters are at work in this ensemble? - Your entanglement with the scene - can a pattern be identified here? to what extent is this damage structural, or singular?
* GMO bacteria (laura) - what is going on here? - which are the agents implied? alive or not, human or not, powerful or powerless - wheres? spatiality / situatedness / displacements / distribution - whens? temporality / durability / existing / extinct / repeated - semiotic-materialities: what signs and matters are at work in this ensemble? - Your entanglement with the scene - can a pattern be identified here? to what extent is this damage structural, or singular?
